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Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton - Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2003)

Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton - Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:13 | 256 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDA67425

The two piano concertos of Shostakovich, though strikingly different from each other, have both become twentieth century classics. The first has long been one of Marc-André Hamelin's 'party pieces.' Hyperion was pleased to have the opportunity to pair him with Andrew Litton, a conductor who knows these works backwards and forwards (he has even recorded the second concerto as pianist). The resulting performances have a vitality and flair which places them amongst the greatest ever put to disc. The Shchedrin concerto, though less well-known, is no less enjoyable. There is brilliance in both the piano writing and the orchestration and the surprise addition of a jazz trio in the finale - including vibraphone and drum kit - is sure to bring the house down.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard - Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances (2024) 24/192

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 74:32 minutes | 2,35 GB
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics, Official Digital Download

‘From a musical point of view, but especially with regard to the stageworthiness of the work, these cuts represent an absolute improvement’ Bartok wrote to his publisher when he had finished his definitive revision of his Wooden Prince – cutting out much of the music relating to specific stage action, but also generally tightening the symphonic structure, making its large-scale mirror form appear clearer. Normally performed and recorded in its non-revised full-length version, it has been a joy now to follow Bartok’s inspired last wish revision of this mystic, vital, otherworldly, and grotesque fantasy music. (Thomas Dausgaard)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bartok: The Wooden Prince (Final Version) (2024)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bartok: The Wooden Prince (Final Version) (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:14:19 | 300 Mb
Genre: Classical

‘From a musical point of view, but especially with regard to the stageworthiness of the work, these cuts represent an absolute improvement’ Bartok wrote to his publisher when he had finished his definitive revision of his Wooden Prince – cutting out much of the music relating to specific stage action, but also generally tightening the symphonic structure, making its large-scale mirror form appear clearer. Normally performed and recorded in its non-revised full-length version, it has been a joy now to follow Bartok’s inspired last wish revision of this mystic, vital, otherworldly, and grotesque fantasy music. (Thomas Dausgaard)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs (2021)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 313 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:47
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics

Bartók’s ‘The Miraculous Mandarin’ (published as ‘A Pantomime in One Act’) was composed at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra-nationalist regime which persecuted communists, Jews and leftists and left over 1,500 dead and thousands imprisoned without trial.
Linus Roth, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Antony Hermus - Lassen, Scharwenka, Langgaard (2019)

Linus Roth, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Antony Hermus - The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol. 22 - Lassen, Scharwenka, Langgaard (2019)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 344 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | Artwork included | 01:16:39
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records

Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series returns with three real rarities, rescuing them from their current neglect. All receive the strongest advocacy from Linus Roth, who plays them like the repertoire standards they may one day become.
Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: Suite No. 1 & Concerto for Orchestra (2019)

Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: Suite No. 1 & Concerto for Orchestra (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 77:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics | # ONYX 4210 | Recorded: 2019

Commencing a series on Onyx dedicated to the orchestral music of Béla Bartók, Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra deliver dynamic performances of one of the composer's greatest works, the Concerto for Orchestra, SZ 116, accompanied by the less famous but deserving Suite No. 1, SZ 31, presented here without cuts. Because the Concerto for Orchestra is widely performed and recorded, listeners are likely to know it well, so Dausgaard's decision to open with the Suite No. 1 gives it a prominence that it rarely receives. Both works have parallels that are important to note, primarily the five-movement form and the quasi-symphonic internal structures that Bartók might have employed had he written an official symphony.
Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 (2021)

Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 325 Mb | Total time: 72:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics | # ONYX 4213 | Recorded: 2017, 2018

Bartók composed The Miraculous Mandarin (published as ‘A Pantomime in One Act’) at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The unpleasant Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra nationalist regime which persecuted communists, Jews and leftists, and left over 1,500 dead and thousands imprisoned without trial. It is against this bloody political and social backdrop that the composer, recovering from Spanish Flu, set about a musical depiction of Lengyel’s ‘pantomime grotesque’.
Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Kullervo (2019)

Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Kullervo (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 73:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion ‎| CDA68248 | Recorded: 2018

Kullervo represents not only the confident first step in Sibelius's symphonic odyssey, it is also a viscerally exciting experience on its own terms. It is little wonder that the first performance in 1892 was such a triumph for the young composer. This recording from Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in an unmissable acquisition for anyone who knows only the numbered symphonies.
Clare Howick, Grant Llewellyn, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - British Violin Concertos (2017)

Clare Howick, Grant Llewellyn, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - British Violin Concertos: Patterson, Leighton, Jacob (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 332 Mb | Total time: 67:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573791 | Recorded: 2017

This new release from BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Grant Llewellyn features Violin Concertos by exclusively British composers, including Paul Patterson, Kenneth Leighton, and Gordon Jacob. The featured soloist in these works is violinist Clare Howick. Described by The Strad as "playing with beguiling warmth and affection" and by American Record Guide as "simply spectacular", Clare Howick is at the forefront of a generation of inspiring violinists. As a champion of new music, Clare has premiered many new works, both on disc and in performance. She recently gave the world premiere performance at St John's Smith Square of Violin Concerto No.2 ('Serenade') by Paul Patterson, a song-like, wistful and exuberantly sparkling work, which was specially written for her. This is the piece's world premiere recording.
Howard Shelley, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 43: Bennett & Bache: Piano Concertos (2007)

Howard Shelley, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 43: Bennett & Bache: Piano Concertos (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 65:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67595 | Recorded: 2006

The Romantic Piano Concerto series returns to England, and explores further fascinating and little-known repertoire. Indeed, the concerto by Francis Edward Bache (1833–1858) has perhaps never been performed. The composer, a pupil of Sterndale Bennett, and acclaimed at a young age by contemporaries all over Europe as a prodigious talent of whom great things were expected, died of TB at the age of 25, leaving the manuscript of his Piano Concerto in the library of the Royal Academy of Music, where it has languished until this recording. This enchanting work is a great discovery. Also on the disc are two accomplished works by the composer-pianist Sterndale Bennett. The indefatigable Howard Shelley directs the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from the piano.